Correspondence before my mother died.
It was found that chickens began to sing softly in the eggshell about 24 hours before breaking the shell. Although it was very slight, people could hear it with their ears attached to the eggshell. This is called the singing before death, which is to let mother pay attention to it and let her know that it will be born. Hens can know whether the chicks in the eggshell are cold or hot according to the change of singing, and decide whether to continue heating them according to their situation. At this time, the hen is very busy, sometimes she stands with her hips up, sometimes she adjusts the direction of hatching eggs, and she also makes a gentle voice in response to the baby chicks ... sometimes she can't take care of eating and drinking for two days until the chicks under her stomach gently scream and break their shells, otherwise some eggs will miscarry and the chicks will die in the eggshell.
There is a wonderful phenomenon that hens hatch eggs: eggs that are not put in the same day will be born on the same day as long as the time interval is not very different (for example, three to five days), which means that some eggs hatch for only ten days, while the normal situation is 2 1 day. Artificial hatcheries can't do this, and eggs released late are born late.
It turns out that mother hen, in order to take good care of her children in a unified way, let her babies be born on the same day through her own whispering and calling. Interestingly, after human beings deciphered the hen's voice signal, they imitated the signal and sound when the hen was hatching eggs with artificial imitation voice, and chicks could be born on the same day.
Enjoy mother's care
After all the babies are born, the hungry and thirsty hen takes her babies to find food, water, food and play. Hens will cry "Cough, Cough" from time to time, indicating that "Mom is by your side, you can rest assured to play and eat". This motherly sound will make the chicks grow up with peace of mind, even if other strange sounds don't make them panic. Chickens ventured far away and kept in touch with their mothers all the time. The hen always pays attention to her chicks and judges the safety of each chick by their chirping. When the chicken plays for a while and goes away, it will make a long and loud chirp when it can't see its mother. Lonely and anxious voice is shouting "Mom, where are you? Come and find me. " At this time, the hen will stride over and pick it up. If the chicken feels dangerous, Haw will get hysterical and shout for help, and then his mother will run to save it. At this time, the hen is very brave. Even if an eagle or a fox attacks, she will rush at all costs. What a great mother!
The researcher recorded such an interesting story: Dali and Lena are two black hens, who take their children everywhere for food and play every day. One day, Lena's only chicken baby died of illness, but Lena's maternity made her like to be close to Dali's children. Whenever this happens, Dali will be very alert. One day, Dali and her children were foraging under a big Pu Shu. Lena went over and gave a loving cry, intending to give it to a chicken. A baby chicken really came over, and Lena was very happy and satisfied to coax the chicken. Dali was very unhappy and coaxed the child back to him. But Lena did it again and again. Every time Lido tries to coax the child back, the chicken seems to enjoy having two mothers to take care of herself. One afternoon, something different happened. I saw two hens lying under the big Pu Shu, and the chicks were lying among them, and they started their "negotiation". After cackling, cooing and chirping in a low voice for a few minutes, they stood up and continued to scratch in the surrounding black soil, calling for the baby chicken to eat, and the chicken ate here and there. It can be seen that Dali has accepted Lena as the second mother of this chicken.
Don't sigh that chicks know how to enjoy themselves. In fact, even a synthetic hen's loving cry will attract chicks.
I am going to lay eggs. Help me find a nest.
When a hen wants to lay eggs, it will make a long guttural sound. People call this "the cry of hens laying eggs". Now people think she is in a hurry, but in fact she is telling her partner, "I'm going to lay eggs, help me find a nest."